Kingdom Of Lost Souls

Following on from the last post about the Kiss It Goodbye LP with limited cover, and here's another record which follows the same trend...

'Kingdom Of Lost Souls' was the second LP from Damnation A.D. which was released as Rev71 in 1998. This was a really interesting time for the Rev catalogue, as they had bands from all kinds of different scenes coming out with great records, e.g. Morning Again, Elliott, In My Eyes, The Nerve Agents, Kill Holiday, etc. The Damnation record was heavy as hell and is still one that I revisit on a semi regular basis. The latest pressing is on gold vinyl, with 110 copies in a limited sleeve.

The record itself has blank, stamped labels and, just like the Kiss It Goodbye record, I got number 16. The art on the sleeve was done by some guy called Christopher Robin Duncan, who as far as I can tell seems to be a well respected artist. That said, I have no idea what picture is supposed to be, and I don't find it overly exciting. That said, however, the back cover looks great with the big gold lettering and the gold Rev logo.

I also got one of the copies which comes on the same colour vinyl, but in a regular sleeve and with regular labels. There were 440 copies of this one pressed.

As much as I may like this record, I'm not quite sure why this has again been repressed, as I have never really felt that it was that popular, especially over twenty years later. The last colour vinyl pressing back in 2015 was available for years and, unexpectedly, the limited cover pictured above is still available at RevHQ. I'm sure it won't hang around for too long, but it's definitely surprising as most of these recent limited cover pressings go within a matter of minutes. I'm sure if it would have had a tank on the front it would be long sold out.